[Systers-dev] Using Selenium for Testing

[स्वक्ष]

On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 04:53, Jennifer Redman <jenred at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sauce Labs (Selenium based cloud testing service)  offers free-testing time
> for Open Source Projects (they are also a GSoC participant this year).
>
> Would the different soc project teams please take a look and see if this is
> something we should integrate into our testing process?

SauceLabs is co-founded by the original creator of Selenium[0] and
folks at TW itself are moving away from selenium or should i say its
being developed into something bigger --WebDriver[1] by google and
sahi[2] by an ex-TW'er which is being used extensively by Yahoo.
I am told that selenium development is not what it used to be and it
would be harder to get help in future. Not sure how true this is, but
IF true, then the points Robin raised are valid from a long term
perspective for systers and it would be useful to know if:
- systers volunteers are ok with less community support from selenium?
- saucelabs is a commercial initiative (which is good) but will they
provide community support (read free as in speech)?
I hope that does not sound discouraging, rather, I wanted to share the
feedback I got.

Also, I looked at tools like watir[3] but ruby and python on a server
is supposed to be a sysadmin nightmare.  So to avoid cross-language
maintenance hassles, I was experimenting with python based testing
tools like funkload[4],   GPL licensed (for those interested).  At
today's irc meeting, I was discussing this with Jason and i'm
summarizing the points below:
+ There is no funkload or tcpwatch package for hardy 8.04 and
tcpwatch-httpproxy is available with ubuntu8.10 and  above.  I'll
check if funkload and tcpwatch-httpproxy can be manually installed for
hardy.
+ ATM, I'm not sure how this (manually installing tcpwatch-httpproxy)
will conflict with MM+systers installation because earlier, on hardy,
attempting to do an apt-get resulted in sendmail and procmail packages
being uninstalled.
+ Jason has suggested he will look into this and get back with more
information tomorrow.

I hope I didnt miss any information.

Hope that helps.

[0] http://seleniumhq.org/about/history.html
[1] http://code.google.com/p/selenium/wiki/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#Q:_What_is_?
[2] http://sahi.co.in/w/sahi-community,  apache licensed, whose
response time (free for floss community) is around 24 hours. Email
support at sahi.co.in OR narayan at sahi.co.in <--i spoke to him.
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watir
[4] http://funkload.nuxeo.org/

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thanks and regards,
vid || http://svaksha.com